A meeting on road safety

 

The regional akimat, under the chairmanship of regional akim Gali Iskaliev, held a meeting on the prevention of road accidents and road safety, and also considered the implementation of a comprehensive plan of measures to prevent and eliminate corruption in the activities of the police Department of the West Kazakhstan region.
As you know, in November last year, the Governor of the region Gali Iskaliev instructed to create a special working group on road safety. The main goal of this working group is to ensure the safety of the population. As part of the order, a special work plan was approved and a road map was created covering the region and the city of Uralsk. A lot of work has been done to date in accordance with this plan. There are positive results for a number of indicators. Acting head of the police Department of the West Kazakhstan region Zhanbolat Zhanshin reported on the results of work in this direction.
according to the speaker, according to the developed "Road map", a number of operational and preventive measures were carried out this year, such as "Safe road", "pedestrian", "Bus", "law and order" and the action "Reception on the road".
On the eve of the beginning of the school year, we first conducted a comprehensive survey of roads near educational institutions, and took measures to update road signs and markings. 63 models of children were installed near pedestrian crossings, schools and kindergartens, including 33 in Uralsk. As this measure helps to reduce the speed limit and increases the attention of drivers. Together with the Department of housing and communal services, passenger transport and highways of Uralsk, 51 streets were surveyed, which are adjacent to secondary schools and other pre-school institutions, for the presence and condition of functioning technical means of traffic regulation. During the survey, it was found that in the current year, 58 sections have been equipped with additional pedestrian crosswalks, 5 of which are regulated by traffic lights with a call button for pedestrians:№1, №17, №19, №22, №32, №34. In addition, on 38 sites on the approaches to unregulated pedestrian crossings, artificial road irregularities of industrial manufacture are installed, - said zhanshin.
With regard to the quality of roads and their maintenance, 1,144 road surveys were conducted, and 1,100 instructions were issued to road owners to correct deficiencies. 1,350 road signs were installed, 1,675 kilometers of roads were marked with road markings, and 26 traffic lights were installed, including 12 pedestrian ones with call buttons. By the end of this year, it is planned to install the same traffic lights on 30 more sections of the regional center's road network, including 2 transport and 28 pedestrian ones with call buttons.
These measures and a number of other measures have reduced the number of road accidents. Acting head of the police Department of the West Kazakhstan region Zhanbolat Zhanshin noted that for 8 months the number of road accidents decreased by 2.7%, the number of dead by 26.3% and injured by 19.3%.
The basic cause of the accident remains the indiscipline of road users, allowing for speeding (52 accidents or 29.7% of the total accidents, 10 died and 33 were injured); the non-observance of the rules of maneuvering (23 accident or 13.1% of the total number of accidents, 5 killed and 24 wounded); disregard of the rules of journey of intersections (32 accidents or 18.3% of the total, 3 killed and 41 wounded); violation of rules of passing pedestrian crossings (19 accidents, 20 injured); violations of traffic rules by pedestrians (12 MVA, 12 injured).
As part of the implementation of measures to improve road safety, it is planned to install 40 speed meters, 14 intersections with the "Intelligent intersection" system and 200 video surveillance cameras with output to the Central control center, for a total of 870.3 million tenge.
Mayor of Uralsk Abat Shynybekov told about the implementation of the road safety action plan for 2020 in the regional center.
As a result of this work in Uralsk, from August 1 this year to the present, 7 traffic lights for cars, 7 traffic lights with a call button at pedestrian crossings, 8 additional sections of traffic lights, 10 artificial road irregularities were installed, markings were made on 20 streets and cold plastic was applied on 105 sidewalks of the city.
According to the plan, a special lane for public transport is set aside on Abay Avenue. In addition, work is underway on the reconstruction of areas and places where artificial irregularities were previously installed, and now traffic lights are installed, – said the mayor of the city A. Shynybekov.
In addition, since August 1, the city has formed a Commission on road safety, which identifies places that interfere with safe traffic and makes a Protocol decision. According to the Commission's conclusion, a special lane for public transport will be allocated on Abulkhair Khan Avenue. In order to ensure road safety in the Zhuldyz microdistrict, road markings were also carried out, it is planned to install artificial bumps in 11 places and lay sidewalks in 12 places.
The police Department of the West Kazakhstan region is working purposefully within the framework of a Comprehensive plan of measures to prevent and eliminate corruption.
As you know, WKO is in the first place in the country on the facts of corruption. According to the data, according to the results of 7 months of this year, 101 facts of receiving and giving bribes were registered in the West Kazakhstan region. Of these, 83 facts of receiving and giving bribes with the participation of police officers. These facts show that corruption crimes involving police officers do not stop.
In particular, from the police Department of the West Kazakhstan region in the period from 2017 to January 2020, 38 employees who committed corruption criminal offenses were dismissed on the basis of sub-paragraphs 12, 13, 15 of paragraph 1 of article 80 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "on law enforcement service". This includes: 21 employees in 2017, 9 employees in 2018, 2 employees in 2019, and 6 employees in January 2020.

Alla Luchinina,
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